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Appeal filed as trial looms in pepper spray Q-tip suit
The Headwaters Defense vs Humboldt County legal team filed an emergency appeal May 6 to try to keep the retrial in their civil rights suit in San Francisco rather than Eureka, where it is set to begin next Monday, May 12. 2003. The appeal also seeks to remove U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker from the case for bias....
Posted: Wed, May 7, 2003 11:11am PDT
May 8: Car Pools and Final Press Release
CAR POOLS ARE MEETING AT MACARTHUR BART AT 9AM (40TH BETWEEN MLKAND TELEGRAPH IN OAKLAND)
Details at www.may8.org
Sacramento, CA - In the midst of California’s budget crisis, teachers, students, parents and concerned community members will rally on May 8th, the “Day of the Teacher”, against the Governor’s proposal to cut millions of dollars from education while increasing the state's prison budget. Students, teachers and parents will visit lawmakers to offer ways ...
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 10:05pm PDT
Jury Awards $765,000 for Injury During a Riot
Jury deems Knepper 49% at fault, gives $765K...
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 9:13pm PDT
100,000 Signatures Plus to Recall Gov Davis
The 100,000 signature mark has been passed in the campaign to Recall Gov Gray Davis, the worst governor in California's history. They said it could not be done, but that much has been done and the campaign is now paying 200 circulators to gather signatures....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 7:25pm PDT
Oakland Docks forum (City Council) May 13
The Apr 29 hearing on the Oakland docks is being continued on May 13, City Hall, in City Council chambers....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 11:58am PDT
Q-tip Pepper Spray Re-Trial May 12
The Headwaters vs. Humboldt pepper spray by Q-tip civil rights suit retrial begins a week from today, May 12, in federal court in Eureka, unless the appeals court delays it, which is unlikely....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 1:30am PDT
Final mobilization to derail the superjail
FINAL MASS MOBILIZATION TO: Derail the SuperJail
Come Out & Make Sure the Supervisors Keep Their Word...
Posted: Mon, May 5, 2003 12:07am PDT
Patriot Raid
Read what happens to innocent people in cities like our own when they're skin is not the correct color. This is dispicable behavior by the NYPD, and it should be used as an example regularly about the evils of PATRIOT...
Posted: Sun, May 4, 2003 5:23pm PDT
Mumia’s Life Is Not Safe!
Racist Governor Ed Randell Promises The Execution Of Mumia Abu-Jamal,...
Posted: Sun, May 4, 2003 2:13pm PDT
Fla. Deputy Pepper Sprays 12-Year-Old Girl for Jaywalking
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A deputy used pepper spray on a 12-year-old girl and wrestled her to the ground when she ignored repeated orders to stop jaywalking, the sheriff's office said Friday....
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2003 6:30pm PDT
Teach-in/Art-Creation Monday: Media Advisory
Bay Area Youth and Community Gather To Make Signs, Banners, Build Props for May 8th “Education Not Incarceration” Rally at the Capitol...
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2003 12:01pm PDT
May 8 Media Advisory
May 8th Capitol Rally to Draw Thousands Advocating for Education Funding Over Prison Spending...
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2003 11:59am PDT
May 8: Curriculum, Carpools, Money and Media
May 8th's Education Not Incarceration Rally
Noon, Thursday, May 8
North Side, Capital Building, Sacramento...
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2003 11:56am PDT
Pickett at Oakland Docks 5/12
Peaceful rally to protest OPD police brutality and the Invasion of Iraq.
With a Peace Navy! Mon 5/12, 5-9pm.
Meet: W Oakland BART...
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2003 1:24am PDT
Yet Another Witness Refutes The frame-Up Of Mumia Abu-Jamal!
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal!...
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2003 9:51pm PDT
Schools Suffer while Prisons Prosper
Education not Incarceration gears up for May 8 Rally in Sacramento to protest budget cuts to Education....
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2003 12:14pm PDT
TURKISH POLICE STOP QUAKE DEMO BY FIRING LONG MACHINE GUN BURSTS
Police fired long bursts of automatic gunfire into the air as a crowd of around 1,000 demonstrators marched on the local governor's offices chanting "Government resign" and demanding tents and food after a powerful tremor destroyed their homes and trapped hundreds of children in a school dormitory. 83 children remain trapped and rescuers reported hearing some of their screams....
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2003 2:16am PDT
Teach-in and Banner/Poster Making for May 8
Poster and Banner-Making Teach-in and Media Training for the May 8 Education not Incarceration Rally
Monday, May 5, 3:30-7PM
At the School for Social Justice
the Harper Building
10th Street and 3rd Avenue, Oakland, Near Lake Merritt BART...
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2003 6:24pm PDT
Funding Request for May 8
I am writing to you as a founding member of the East Bay Educators Justice Network with an urgent request for funding help. Our newly forming group is working for justice for students in the East Bay and to provide resources to our students so that they can work for local and global justice themselves. We are playing an important role in organizing the May 8 Education not Incarceration Rally in Sacramento (www.may8.org)....
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2003 6:21pm PDT
People united can preserve the Bill of Rights
We currently live in extremely challenging times and it doesn’t look like it will become easier anytime soon....
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2003 2:45pm PDT